Hi,
Boerhaave was a famous Dutch scientist (see
http://herman-boerhaave.biography.ms/).
As far as I know Boerhaave is not known as a composer. However he wrote
the texts of some of Clerks cantates
(http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/quick/directory/r_50044/s_253/ss_/f_77.html)
Some more stuff
I've been reading the travel diaries of John Clerk of Penicuick (near
Edinburgh). He studied with Corelli in Rome, but also spent some time in
Leyden, Holland. He befriended one Boerhaave, whom he decribes as being 'a
big and clumsy man, with fingers proportionable, yet from the time I had
left
Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
PS I now have an 11c lute!
cordial congrats!!! That's the real thing.
all the best,
Mathias
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